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When Bigger isn't Better: LaBeouf laments 'Indiana Jones' and 'Transformers 2'

May 18th 2010 02:42

Shia LaBeouf, of most of Steven Spielberg's films fame, has come out at the Cannes Film Festival and described how he 'dropped the ball' on 'Indiana Jones'.

In regards to mega blockbuster 'Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen', LaBeouf admitted 'we got lost'.

I find it great that Shia is willing to be so open about the film, and that a films box office doesn't necessarily translate as success. What do you think?

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The Top 10 Best Box Office Bombs of the Decade!

April 29th 2010 07:54

2010 marked the dawning of a new decade, however, that doesn't mean we still can't reminisce about the past. And in this case, what might have been.

Brian Zitzelman of the The Seattle Movie Examiner posted a great story on the 'The Top 10 Best Box Office Bombs of the Decade'. The list can be found here

Four of the movies are actually some of my all time favourites, does this mean I have an appetite for disasters?

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Escape from New York and the Remake Update!

April 27th 2010 01:08

Bad news for people against film remakes, Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Director Breck Eisner (Sahara, The Crazies) has signed on to direct Escape from New York, due for release in 2011.

Remakes can be a good thing, but can you really imagine an Escape from New York without Kurt Russell being any good?

Next thing you would know, they'll be remaking The Fog, Halloween and Assault on Precinct 13...oh wait.

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What happened to the film entreprenuer?

April 8th 2010 03:41

I was watching a documentary on Australian Films recently and the entrepreneur mind set of the Australian producers, directors and writers of the 70's and 80's, had me thinking. With all the technology that the young crop of aspiring film-makers have available, why isn't Australian films performing as well as they could?

It seems to me from the conversations and discussions I have had, or heard, is that the creative aspect of the film maker has never died, but the business mindset, prominent in the 70's and early 80's in Australian film makers has all but vanished

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